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Health Ministry Expands Cancer Treatment Facilities, Offers Widespread HPV Vaccination

TEN teaching hospitals in Nigeria are to benefit from a N1.44 billion ($9 million) project supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to procure cancer-treating equipment. Beneficiaries of the project to ...

UTC Launches New Food Court in Victoria Island, Emphasis on Healthy Foods

Food and Beverage company, UTC Nigeria Plc, has opened an ultra-modern food court in Victoria Island, Lagos. The food court is the second in the commercial city of Lagos out of a ...

Malaria Vaccine Almost Here

Medical practitioners across Africa working on a vaccination for the deadly malaria disease have continued to make good progress.Dr. Patricia Njuguna, a researcher based in Kenya has developed a vaccine named RTS, ...

Subsidy Removal: Cost of Basic Medication on Increase

The President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has alerted Nigerians that the costs of basic medication will appreciate by 50% in a matter of weeks, if the removal of subsidy is ...

Julius Berger To Launch Healthcare Company Early 2012

Julius Berger Plc, Nigeria’s largest construction company, notified the Nigerian stock exchange today of its establishment of two subsidiaries. The first being PrimeTech Design & Engineering Nigeria Limited for the provisions of ...

TFC Wins West Africa Tourism And Hospitality Awards

Tastee Fried Chicken (TFC) wins the 2011 West Africa Tourism and Hospitality Awards (WATHA) Platinum Award held in Ghana. TFC, a Nigerian owned eatery that has for years served the Quick Service ...

Uniliver Product Recognized In Guinness Book Of Records

One of Unliver product, lifebuoy soap enters Guinness world book of records. This is attributed to one of the most remarkable exercise carried out by the company. Recently in this year, to ...

MDCN Withdraws Doctors Certificates For Misconduct

The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria(MDCN) Dr. Abdulmumini Ibrahim, has disclosed that a total number of 50 doctors in Nigeria have been sanctioned and ...

Nigeria’s Pharmaceutical Manufacturers At Global Competitive Disadvantage

The strong structural shifts and marketing trends of the global economy especially in the manufacturing and pharmaceutical sector has forced the former governor of the central bank of Nigeria, Prof Charles Soludo ...

Survey Of Market Consumables Commences In 2012

As from the first quarter of the year 2012, the Institute of Public Analysts of Nigeria (IPAN) would commence a market survey of all consumables. IPAN is recognized as one of the ...